using Autotune w/ vegas 7

[shackrock]

My friend had an older version of anteres autotune...maybe 2.0? Anyway he couldn't figure out how to really use it in Vegas...and I remember reading that getting ANY of the autotune programs to work well with vegas was a huge hassle....anyone got any ideas/tips?? ha.

[TimOBrien]

You might want to seriously take a look at Melodyne:

http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.ph...roducts_plugin

[warble2]

Well, they're on version 5 of Autotune now, so there might be some improvements. Personally, I'm with Tim. I've used Melodyne at a friend's studio, and figured it out pretty quickly and LOVED using it. I'd take it over Autotune anyday.

How does that help you? I'd guess it doesn't. I don't even know that Melodyne works with Vegas...ha.

[shackrock]

hmmm, well it says it's VST...so it's gotta work right? haha maybe i'll DL a demo if they got one.

[shackrock]

k. just DLed the demo...

so I followed the instructions as closely as I could...it's inserted on the vocal track, but when I play it back while melodyne is active, that track goes silent. I can see the audio being detected on the top left bar. so I pressed the "transfer" button (with the 3 arrows). Then, it says waiting for audio. perfect. I start the track, and it's still waiting for audio.... I can't, for the life of me, get it to transfer it to melodyne...any ideas?

[warble2]

I've never used Melodyne as an insert. I've exported vox tracks from Sonar, then loaded them in Melodyne for correcting.

I've messed with it a little before too, just try opening Melodyne itself and loading the WAV file into it that way. Then fix the pitch and resave as WAV and import back into Vegas.

[shackrock]

wait, from what I understand melodyne is ONLY the plugin (VST)...how would I open this as a stand-alone...is it a different version or something? hope they have a demo for that.

[dafduc]

The VST is new - I have the standalone (which can also work in Rewire) Melodyne Uno, you edit a wav file. Think it cost me $150.

The coolest thing about it is its ability to separately identify and adjust drift, vibrato, center pitch, and formants. Editing interface takes some getting used to though.